| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. |
| Albert Einstein | Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate. |
| Alexander Pope | To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. |
| Alexander Pope | Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. |
| Bertrand Russell | The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. |
| Alexander Pope | To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. |
| Alexander Pope | Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. |
| Book of Common Prayer | Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. |
| Charles Sprague | Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. |
| Edmund Spenser | Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have? |
| Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. |
| Fox | Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy. |
| Francis Quarles | 'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. |
| Frederick W Robertson | There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature. |
| Jack Gilcrest | Kerry Ellison, your name sounds like Kyrie Eleison* *Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek. |
| John Hay | A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory: "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!" |
| John Masefield | The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. |
| Lin Yutang | Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. |
| Mark Hopkins | Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. |
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